Hi folks,
Iím Alan Watt and this is Cutting Through the Matrix on the 28th of
April, 2011. I always start off by telling newcomers to go into
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youíll get a better understanding of the massive superstructure of interlocking
organizations which run the world basically, above governmental level, although
they have some lesser members down in government, the guys that hope to get up
higher into the superstructure, of course. So, I try and give you
shortcuts to understanding how this big system operates. Itís been here
for an awful long time, and of course, they do have their plans and think tanks
working on their future. They must always make sure of their own personal
survival for the offspring into their own future, the one they design.
And thatís all youíre going through today with the restructuring of the world,
very old plan, and weíre watching them use the finishing touches to some of it,
as they basically standardize the last few countries that are free, to an
extent, from the central banking systems and the IMF into the same system.

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Now getting
back to this big system, this overlapping system, you can pick it up quite
easily if you do have a memory and you do listen to little quips from either
radio or you read it in magazines or newspapers throughout your lifetime.
You start to see how the hierarchy kind of works, the interlocking structure,
and itís much the same as the way that Plato described it in his book called The
Republic, the perfect utopia for an elite to rule over. He called it
The Republic, where you would have a Guardian class, and some of them at the
top actually refer to them, because theyíve all read Plato, they really love The
Republic, and they talk about themselves as being part of the Guardians, of
their world, basically. They also talk about the helping class thatís
brought in to manage on behalf of the Guardian class, manage the people down
below, trade, industry, right down to reproduction in the people they use for
different occupations, how theyíd breed people together at the bottom for tall
people, for short people for mining, and so on, just like how you manage
livestock or pedigree dogs, for instance. They talked about that thousands
of years ago. And, of course, thatís why theyíre using science to
basically make it happen in our day and age.

So, thereís
nothing new under the sun as they say. Itís just that itís a better cover
today. Youíre actually under this kind of system, and of course, we know
from Quigley and others, and Russell and various other higher members of this
organization, how they select their helpers, the ones that you see on
television as Prime Ministers or Presidents. Really the guys behind them
are far more important, all the appointed advisors and so on. Theyíre far
more important than any puppet they can put in front of you for public
appeal. Back with more, after this break.

Hi folks,
weíre back, Cutting Through the Matrix, and just talking about the system, this
over-structure, the superstructure that runs across and above all institutions
across the world. In fact, they make sure they have these institutions,
these lower institutions as a kind of safeguard for them. Itís also their
watchdog for them. And itís also the means by which they can get their
big agenda put through, because those who are incredibly well paid, people who
are picked, selected from Ivy League Universities, and chosen before they pass
any degrees or whatever, these guys are really slated for a life where the
doors are opened for them, to make sure they get put into the right positions,
over the military, commerce, etc, etc; everything that runs your system and
politics as well. And thereís nothing new at all in this system.
Itís been here for an awful long time. And Carroll Quigley did a very
good job, being a member himself of this particular working, ruling group, sort
of subgroup you might say, not in the Guardian class, but the working group for
the elite, he mentioned that you have to be a part of this organization to get
up in life at all. And thatís been verified by even the CFR themselves,
who admit that they themselves had to join the CFR to be accepted in amongst
what they called, they called the ruling class. Itís not really.
They might bump shoulders with some of the higher members, that youíll never
hear mentioned in the news, but they themselves technically are still a working
type, worker bee, for the ruling class, but very well rewarded. And
thatís the key to it all. Those who get in from the Ivy League
Universities and brought up are incredibly well rewarded for the system into
which theyíre brought into. And they become incredibly loyal to it as
well.

As a
species, we can adapt into doing anything, you know, anything youíre told, if
youíre well rewarded for it, and youíll start to rationalize it in your own
head. Just like the bankers, who shortly after plunging the whole world
into a Great Depression by their bubbles and basically being a bunch of criminals,
and then getting rewarded for it, by the public, bailing them out. And
then giving themselves multi-billion dollar pay raises and so on, and bonuses,
these are the kind of characters who can always rationalize what they do.
Itís quite easy as a human apparently to rationalize anything you do. And
itís the same if you took them into any other era, time, place or
whatever. These guys, if they were executioners for a very strong
political semi-military group, running a country, they would justify the slaughters
and atrocities and executions theyíd do too. These are the same
personalities. It works all the way down the line, right to the cop at
the bottom of the street.

So, thatís
how the system works. Unfortunately, weíre too well understood, and itís
getting worse all the time as they understand more and more about us, because
they have ongoing psychological testing on the public, constantly in
fact. Itís constant, and data collection and so on, to find out, how many
people are really basically corruptible. And thatís what it is.
Itís much easier to be corruptible when they donít call it corruption.
What youíre doing technically is not illegal, itís immoral, you see. And
these guys make a big distinction between legal and immorality to suit their
own egos, obviously. Thatís why, as Iíve said, so many times before, even
before the last financial crash, they wonít change the system of banking,
because itís meant to be left to crash at least twice a century, so they can
loot real businesses, real businesses, and small businesses, billions of them,
and pension funds and everything else. Theyíre meant to be able to do
that so that they can loot it from the public. Thatís why theyíll never
change it. And they havenít changed it since the last crash.

Itís the
same when George Soros boasted that he and two of his buddies did a speculation
deal to crash the British economy and they made millions and millions of pounds
off it. And then, the British taxpayer had to get the prime minister to
go off to the international money lenders to get cash back to float the economy
again, and pay all that compound interest that never seems to end. Thatís
how the world really runs. And we call this a sane system. Itís
quite amazing how we can be brought up in a system, youíre taught to be proud
of it. You can really condition people to be proud of the country, and we
get confused, you see. We take the country and the people you know, and
the land itself, and even the way of life. We take that as how the elites
see it, but they see it in a different way altogether. The elites see the
country as a big farm, a great big ranch. And they see you as down there
amongst the animals. And theyíre proud of that too. Theyíre proud
of that, nice, well behaved animals, and so on, who keep paying them through
taxes to be up there, to get big projects done, under the guise of national
roads or whatever it happens to be, and then, of course, they clap themselves
on the backs when they get their politicians to hand it to them as a
corporation to run instead. I mean itís just a wonderful system being a
rancher at the top.

And they
really do exist, these people, if youíve ever mixed with any of them or met any
of them, thatís how they see the world, and so, Charles Fort was right on that
count, we are being farmed, technically. And of course, that is simply
verified by the ongoing data collection on the animals, right down to wanting
to chip us all down the road, weigh you and know everything about you, because
a farmer, a good farmer, he knows his livestock. He really knows the
heredity of that bull there and that cow there, and he can pretty well guess
the strength of the offspring, their weaknesses and strengths and how much cash
heís going to get down the road from them, as they work away and get
milked. So, that really is the simple system that we do live in.
And the feudal system never disappeared, of course. It simply transformed
under a different guise, and they called it democracy, which is actually better
for them to run from the top, because itís harder to actually see it for what
it really is, when youíve been brainwashed into thinking that a prime minister
or a president runs the country and that he represents the public. Itís
much easier to run the public that way. Itís a good Disneyland
cover.

Youíll
notice too, how they manage all media, and itís quite fascinating too, as I
say. Youíll always find this, throughout your life as major events
happen. And then, suddenly they vanish, like they never happened at all,
like Japan going up with radiation, its economy almost wrecked, and radiation
traveling across the Northern Hemisphere, still is, of course. They say
it will keep happening for another ten months, as all this stuff fissions off.
And, of course, here theyíre all quiet about it too, because you see, the
atomic energy agencies and so on, have got big bucks tied up in all these
things across the world too, all these different plants, and believe you me,
they all vent off the hydrogen every so often or theyíd blow their roofs off,
just like what happened at Fukushima. They do this all the time, and then
they dump the superheated water thatís supposed to be the coolant into whatever
handy lake or sea is around, and this happens pretty continuously, for those
who have lived around Toronto long enough, for the Pickering Plants; youíll
know that too, yourselves, by little bits in the paper if you can
remember. Youíre supposed to forget, of course, as youíre deluged with
trivia. This is a common practice, and of course, you also have the
opposition who wants to tear down every reactor without stopping to say, wait a
minute here, theyíre going to do away with all coal-fired reactors, that give
you all your power. If they do that, and they close down all your nuclear
plants, you wouldnít be playing with all your fancy electrical gadgets, would
you? Youíd be in dire straits altogether. Tremendously dire
straits, and no one is thinking about that either. However, it doesnít
mean to say that they canít in the meantime tighten up and be more forthcoming
or put laws out so that we can know whatís happening in the local reactors and
how safe they are, or how many inspections are taken out of it, repairing parts
and refitting them, etc, with worn-out parts and all that stuff. We
should be entitled to know that kind of stuff. And private corporations
should not rule our lives with their secrecies when it comes to literally our
lives. Thatís very simple.

However, as
I say, thereís the power of the press, Iíve mentioned it before, that really
Reuters is the leader for this, the Rothschild-owned company that bought over
AP, so basically itís one corporation running the worldís media, and all the
rest of them down below it just trickles out to them. All the other media
is owned by the Council on Foreign Relations, if you again, read Carroll
Quigleyís book, the New York Times and so on, the Times of India, all the Times
across the world, they own, in fact. And many, many others, to boot, to
make sure youíre all fed the information that will shape you opinions for you
and unfortunately that works very well, as well. We have no real
independent reporting on anything. The little thatís left on the internet
is either fake or is disappearing, or itís a mixture of UFOs and all the rest
of it to make it all ridiculous. So, youíre getting stuck with the
mainstream again for every little bit of information which they want you to
know.

So I wonít
be sidelined by the trivia, because, honestly, even today, I looked through,
and before Japan happened, there was almost nothing happening. It was
hard to get any real information or even news on anything that really mattered
to us. And itís gone back to the same thing again. Even the
invasion of Libya is quieting down, and of course, theyíre getting in there for
the long haul, along with Syria too. Theyíre going to get into Syria, and
every country that was on the New American Century list is being continued with
Obamaís bunch, which is really the same bunch, by the way, the guys behind him,
with the same agenda. So, nothing changes, you see. Everything is a
show, and then, when they give you almost a dearth of news, thereís nothing
except trivia. Who cares about Obamaís birth certificate? Who
really cares? Who designed this one for us to be supposedly obsessed
about? Who cares? It wouldnít matter if it was a pygmy they brought
in from outside. It really wouldnít matter at all. It wouldnít
matter if it was some guy that couldnít even speak English, because all they
are is someone to take the praise, and take the tomatoes when he does the wrong
things. Thatís his job. And the guys behind him, as I say, and all
the unelected and appointed people are the ones who really run the show.
And thatís what they call democracy. So, I wonít even touch on
that.

As I say,
the only things of interest today are to do with Japan, Toyota and Honda in
Japan, their production plunges, and how bad it is for their economy.
Thatís about all theyíre saying, and then how theyíve been down-rated by the
top fake guys that give ratings to the world. Back with more, after this
break.

Hi, folks,
weíre back, Cutting Through the Matrix. Just talking about Japan and how
its exports obviously are way, way down, and itís really hurting them, of
course, and the world is fairly quiet on it. Itís like they donít really
like it. And I know one of the reasons is because the people in Japan are
pretty nationalistic, and you canít be nationalistic in other countries.
Thereís only one country allowed to be nationalistic today and the rest of
them, if youíre nationalistic youíre bad; youíre not part of the world
community. So, theyíre all putting the boot into Japan right now, of
course, and then you find out that Standard and Poorís have basically lowered
their rating on Japan. Now, Standard and Poor were awfully good at rating
all these bubbles at very high, very good, you know, solid investments and
stuff. So, theyíre a bunch of fakers anyway, but why are they doing this
to Japan. They donít really like Japan. And, as I say, the US
doesnít need Japan anymore, because it used to hold and buy the bonds of the
US, before they moved them all to China. Now China buys the bonds so they
can let Japan sink. And thatís really the way for it too.

And in
Europe, part of the whole idea of destroying all nations and Rompuy has talked
about this in the European Union, that he would never bring back the old
systems, the age of the nation state is gone forever, is to flood it with
immigrants from all other countries, so as to destroy the existing
cultures. And Germany now has been told many times before to let in other
European migrants and in todayís paper it says here that:

Germany prepares for Polish influx
as labor market opens

Theyíve been told to by this super-Soviet system that
presides over them, but theyíre also letting people in from countries all
around. It isnít just Poland. And of course, theyíre going to flood
it again with cheap labor, which is handy for people who hire. They like
this kind of stuff. They can bring down the cost of labor. Itís
from all the other countries around Europe as well, theyíre going to have to
allow them in too. And they must destroy whatís left of any German
culture too, for this wonderful world zoo thatís called the New World
Order. Now, thereís a caller on the line from Ireland. Itís Robert
from Northern Ireland, I think. Are you there, Robert?

Robert: Hello, Alan.

Alan: Hello. Yes, go ahead.

Robert: Alan, I basically wanted to ask you one
question. Iím from the North of Ireland. I have some friends from
the South. I just wanted to ask you a wee bit about the Lisbon
Treaty. Well, basically, you know, they thought it was a great idea, the
first time round. When it came on, they seemed to think it was a great
idea. We were kind of trying to put them off, you know, voting for whole
Yes thing. I really wanted to ask you what you thought about it, you
know.

Alan: Well, Iíve got books here from the Council on
Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute on International Affairs that go back
to the 1920s and 30s. And in one of their books, it was under their
annual meetings for the British Empire they called it at the time, they had
members from both Northern and Southern Ireland on their committees, on their
boards, high members, and they talked about the future of Ireland, how theyíd
eventually bring it into a European Community, the Bloc they called it at that
time. This is 1937. And Iíve got the names of the speakers and so
on. Theyíve been running both sides of the country since at least that
time, to be honest with you, and working steadily towards integration, only to
be integrated under the Super Parliament of Europe that was always their
plan. Remember, that was the same organization that set up the United
Nations, that also wanted to set up regional Blocs, and eventually dissolve the
countries in under a Super Parliament. And theyíve been pretty successful
in it. So, these guys, youíve got to understand what the real mission is
here. And itís to destroy all national sovereignty altogether. And
eventually private organizations, private companies will be able to, as youíre
lumped into a region, you see, theyíll be able to buy whole sections of your
region and privately own them. So, that will be the death knell of even
saying we have an Ireland or Northern or Southern Ireland. Theyíll just
buy chunks of it up. Thatís on the cards to go down in the not too
distant future.

Robert: Okay, Alan. Thatís great. Thatís basically
hit the nail on the head for me. Thatís all I wanted to ask you.

Alan: Thanks for calling. Thatís what it is.
And this was decided, as I say, back in the 1930s. In that same meeting
these members, and it was all sponsored and paid for by the Rockefeller
foundation by the way, that meeting, they had all the top bankers of the day
there, from across all the countries, the British Empire countries, and from
the United States, even though it was talking about the British Empire, because
the Empire was to eventually merge with the US Empire. The US was to take
it over, basically, which it has done. And they talked about bringing
China up to be the manufacturing center for the world. And this is before
World War II, when China was a Third World country. And it was even after
World War II. They had World Trade Organization already planned back
then, that would eventually come along, the World Court was to be
planned. And through various treaties like the GATT Treaty, etc, they
would basically set up the rules for trading for the world, where literally,
eventually, they could buy whole countries up if need be, whole regions,
multiple countries, all lumped into a sale, basically. And they even had
it planned right down to bringing the new feudal system. Then, later on
in the 60s, Carroll Quigley, being the historian for this group, put some of
that in his book, not as much as Iíve said here though. Back with more,
after this break.

Hi folks, weíre back, and weíre Cutting Through the
Matrix. Talking about, really, how weíre just living through a script, a
long-term business plan, written up a long time ago, by a group that is called
roughly, the Anglo-American Establishment. That covers all peoples and
races and so on by the way, for those who think itís just a sort of a very
white thing. Itís not at all. It may be actually far from it in
some ways. Anyway, itís a cover, because it was really the power banks of
London and the power banks of New York, and those who had the big investments
in them that really were part of the ruling establishment and still are today,
in fact, that set up their organizations to maintain rulership, over not only
their two countries, but to take over what was then the British Empire and
expand it beyond, into a World Empire. And thatís what youíve got going
today. Rudyard Kipling talked about this himself, and even wrote the poem
where he talked about passing on the torch to the Americans. Thatís what
it was, passing it on to you. The Americans had to take over because they
had more land mass, more resources, more tax base, more men for cannon fodder
and thatís what youíre seeing continue up to this present time. So, weíre
living through a long-term business plan.

And of course, academia is completely on board because
they get massive grants from the big foundations that comprise the parallel
government as Quigley called it. And Margaret Thatcher called it that
too, by the way, when she retired, she joined it. She says, we are all
ex-prime ministers, presidents, across the world. We all know each other,
and we form a parallel government. They can get the jobs done. We
donít argue. Weíre not responsible to the general public for elections,
and so they could get the actual thing right through. Theyíre talking
really of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Council on Foreign
Relations, and theyíve now changed the name after I played some of their talks
from Canadian Television in 2005, about Amalgamation of the Americas.
They changed their name in Canada to the CIC. But itís the same
organization, and they have one in Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, and
elsewhere across the world. So, youíre working toward, and they all get
into, they make sure they all get into politics as prime ministers and
presidents. Thatís what Quigley said. There wasnít a single
president or prime minister who hadnít been a member since the late 1800s, to
make sure, of course, that the agenda goes on.

And youíre living through it going on. Youíre
watching it, and youíre seeing it, and youíre living through it going on, as
they take down the last few countries in the world, get them on a central
banking system that will borrow from private banks and the World Bank and the
IMF and then theyíre under this world rule of a tiny minority.

Getting back to the trivia on the news, I wonít bother
even repeating the awful stuff that theyíre giving out as news now, because
itís rubbish, utter trivia and rubbish. Iíll talk a bit about propaganda,
because youíre given propaganda, which really comes through neuroscience today,
and you have these guys calling it neuroscience, not just psychology, but
neuroscience. How to manipulate public opinion constantly, and itís
through all government ads. Itís through all general ads, by the way,
because Madison Avenue is a big, big part of the Establishment. And itís
through all your entertainment, and itís quite simple to do, really.
Anyway, getting back to Aldous Huxley, actually, I mention him and his book,
Brave New World Revisited, where he tells you how they can bring in this type
of system, and how they probably will. And he talks on propaganda.
He uses Hitler. They always use Hitler for an example. They never
use Stalin and so on, because Communism is almost a holy thing for these guys,
since they set it all up.† They talk
about Adolf Hitler, how he used a lot of techniques that they use today.
Motivational research was a thing that he was already into, what really worked
on the masses. And he would use unqualified assertions and sweeping
generalizations. He says:

These are the propagandistís stock and
trade. All effective propaganda,Ē Hitler wrote, ďmust be confined to a
few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas.Ē

These stereotyped formulas must be constantly
repeated, for ďonly constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an
idea upon the memory of a crowd.Ē

(A: And Hitler said the same
thing. People were just a crowd. Individuals donít fall for it, but
the crowd does, you see.)

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about
the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches
us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to
suspend our judgment or to feel doubt. The aim of the demagogue is to create
social coherence under his own leadership.

But, as Bertrand Russell has pointed out,
"systems of dogma without empirical foundations, such as scholasticism,
Marxism and fascism, have the advantage of producing a great deal of social
coherence among their disciples." The demagogic propagandist must therefore
be consistently dogmatic.

(A: Always dogmatic in their
statements. Itís climate change. Itís climate change. Global
warming. No matter if itís pouring down rain or itís snowing and youíre
up to your eyeballs in it.)

All his statements are made without
qualification.

(A: And thatís what you
get. No qualifications. Any study theyíve done, it proves the
opposite.)

There are no grays in his picture of the world;
everything is either diabolically black or celestially white. In Hitler's
words, the propagandist should adopt "a systematically one-sided attitude
towards every problem that has to be dealt with." He must never admit that
he might be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even
partially right.

(A: And you find that with
all these things that are put out for the carbon taxes coming and the global
warming and all that. Theyíre completely dogmatic about it. Theyíre
all onboard, as they say. Their opinions are all unified.)

Opponents should not be argued with; they should
be attacked, shouted down, or, if they become too much of a nuisance,
liquidated. The morally squeamish intellectual may be shocked by this kind of
thing. But the masses are always convinced that "right is on the side of
the active aggressor."

(A: And isnít that
true. Isnít that true? The active aggressor gets the confidence of
the public.)

Such, then, was Hitler's opinion of humanity in
the mass. It was a very low opinion. Was it also an incorrect opinion? The tree
is known by its fruits, and a theory of human nature which inspired the kind of
techniques that proved so horribly effective must contain at least an element
of truth. Virtue and intelligence belong to human beings as individuals freely
associating with other individuals in small groups. So do sin and stupidity.
But the subhuman mindlessness to which the demagogue makes his appeal, the
moral imbecility on which he relies when he goads his victims into action, are
characteristic not of men and women as individuals, but of men and women in
masses.

(A: Think of Music
Television, folks. Theyíre turning every female into a lesbian
whore. Have you listened to the words in the stuff? Have you
listened to any of the words? But thatís for the mass woman, you see, not
for the individual. Thereís too few individuals in male or females.)

Mindlessness and moral idiocy are not
characteristically human attributes; they are symptoms of herd-poisoning.

(A: And again, thatís music
television, thatís your entertainment industry and so on. Itís done on
purpose too, by the way, because thereís an agenda behind it, and a reason for
it. Herd-poisoning.)

In all the world's higher religions, salvation
and enlightenment are for individuals.

(A: And thatís true
too. People miss that point. They always attack the mass
church. They never understand that true religion can only appeal to the
thinking intellectual. Itís not something you just dump yourself in a
bucket of water and you suddenly see the light or get on your knees like
Masonry, with a blindfold and your chest exposed and your pants rolled
up. I mean, itís actually an inner thing that happens to the person, the
individual. Thereís nowhere where Jesus says he came to save the
world. Far from it. He says he came to save the few. And he
talked about the broad way, it was for the masses, and the road to heaven was
very narrow and few would find it. And itís the same in the other
religions too. Itís for the few who understand the higher meanings.
So:)

The kingdom of heaven is within the mind of a
person, not within the collective mindlessness of a crowd. Christ promised to
be present where two or three are gathered together. He did not say anything
about being present where thousands are intoxicating one another with herd-poison.

(A: Look at the tent
preachers on television today, with their buckets of money going around as they
pretend to heal people.)

Under the Nazis enormous numbers of people were
compelled to spend an enormous amount of time marching in serried ranks from
point A to point B and back again to point A. "This keeping of the whole
population on the march seemed to be a senseless waste of time and energy. Only
much later," adds Hermann Rauschning, "was there revealed in it a
subtle intention based on a well-judged adjustment of ends and means. Marching
diverts men's thoughts. Marching kills thought.

(A: It kills thought.
Thatís what the army is for, to make you uniform.)

Marching makes an end of individuality. Marching
is the indispensable magic stroke performed in order to accustom the people to
a mechanical, quasi-ritualistic activity until it becomes second nature."

Hitler was perfectly correct in his estimate of
human nature. To those of us who look at men and women as individuals rather
than as members of crowds, or of regimented collectives, he seems hideously
wrong. In an age of accelerating overpopulation, of accelerating
over-organization and ever more efficient means of mass communication, how can
we preserve the integrity and reassert the value of the human individual? This
is a question that can still be asked and perhaps effectively answered. A
generation from now it may be too late to find an answer and perhaps
impossible, in the stifling collective climate of that future time, even to ask
the question.

(A: I always say to people,
who are you? Because theyíll ask you who you are. What they really
mean is, what are you? And they judge you by what you do. And what
you do will generally tell them what you think that your bank account will
be. Thatís how people judge you in a commercialized system. But
when I ask them, who are you, and they give you a name, I say, no, thatís not
what I meant. Who are you? I want to know who you are, as a
person. And what theyíll try to do right after that is to give you all
the things that would satisfy a herd mentality with their answers. They
will not try and tell you who they really are as a person, what they think
about things, what theyíre uncomfortable about in society and stuff like that.
Theyíll try to give you all the status-quo politically-correct answers.
He goes on in this book too, he says:)

In the two preceding chapters I have described
the techniques of what may be called wholesale mind-manipulation, as practiced
by the greatest demagogue and the most successful salesmen in recorded history.
But no human problem can be solved by wholesale methods alone. The shotgun has
its place, but so has the hypo≠dermic syringe. In the chapters that follow I
shall describe some of the more effective techniques for manipulating not
crowds, not entire publics, but isolated individuals.

In the course of his epoch-making experiments on
the conditioned reflex, Ivan Pavlov (A: That monster of a person, I
added that part in.)
observed that, when subjected to prolonged physical or psychic stress,
laboratory animals exhibit all the symptoms of a nervous breakdown. (A:
Well, thatís what they had.)
Refusing to cope any longer with the intolerable situation, their brains go on
strike, so to speak, and either stop working altogether (the dog loses
consciousness), or else resort to slow≠downs and sabotage (the dog behaves
unrealistically, or develops the kind of physical symptoms which, in a human
being, we would call hysterical). Some animals are more resistant to stress
than others. Dogs possess≠ing what Pavlov called a "strong
excitatory" constitution break down much more quickly than dogs of a
merely "lively" (as opposed to a choleric or agitated) temperament.
Similarly "weak inhibitory" dogs reach the end of their tether much
sooner than do "calm imperturbable" dogs. But even the most stoical
dog is unable to resist indefinitely.

(A: Do you understand, heís
not talking about dogs here. And Pavlov wasnít interested in just how
dogs. They wanted to know how people would react. Thatís what all
experiments are about ultimately.)

If the stress to which he is subjected is
sufficiently intense or sufficiently prolonged, he will end by breaking down as
abjectly and as completely as the weakest of his kind.

Pavlov's findings were confirmed in the most
distressing manner, and on a very large scale, during the two World Wars. As
the result of a single catastrophic experience, or of a succession of terrors
less appalling but frequently repeated, soldiers develop a number of disabling
psychophysical symptoms. Temporary unconsciousness, extreme agitation,
lethargy, functional blindness or paralysis, completely unrealistic responses
to the challenge of events, strange reversals of lifelong patterns of behavior
-- all the symptoms, which Pavlov observed in his dogs, reappeared among the
victims of what in the First World War was called "shell shock," in
the Second, "battle fatigue." Every man, like every dog, has his own
individual limit of endurance. Most men reach their limit after about thirty
days of more or less continuous stress under the conditions of modern combat.
The more than averagely susceptible succumb in only fifteen days.

(A: You see, itís not normal
to go out and slaughter folk. Thatís why they have to train you to
slaughter people and kill other people you donít even know. And the army
is very good at that. Thatís its job, itís to train you to go off and
slaughter people you donít know, and maybe even to like it for some. And
itís not normal either to be chased up a battlefield with shell chasing you the
size of a Volkswagen that blows everything to pieces when it lands. This
is a form of madness, you understand. And itís economic war too.
The guy thatís going to get blown to bits hasnít got a clue of the big
corporations that are involved in this and whoís going to profit, is he?
Heís not been told that within his propaganda sphere. Anyway:)

The more than averagely tough can resist for
forty-five or even fifty days. Strong or weak, in the long run all of them
break down. All, that is to say, of those who are initially sane. For,
ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the
stress of modern war are psychotics. (A: Interesting, eh?) Individual insanity is
immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

(A: So you have to be
psychotic. Have you noticed too, the soldiers can keep going back for
tour after tour, year after year today? Have you noticed? Thatís
because all the drugs theyíre on and the better psychological conditioning they
get, and training to be impersonal about slaughtering folk, and to feel good
about it. Iíve always thought it odd, when your propaganda goes in, in
any country, and they show you some soldiers coming home, and they always show
you the loving wife and maybe a child or two, and the hugs and theyíre so happy
to be back. But this guy has just come back from slaughtering other
mothers and children somewhere else across the planet. Thereís something
wrong here, you know. As I say, this character too will give you the pat
answers of his propaganda. ďWeíre over there to bring them democracy and
give them freedom,Ē and all that rubbish, when you know damn well, that Chase
and all the rest of the big corporations are involved with the war and massive
profits and theyíre all getting dibs on first grabs on everything to be had in
the land thatís going to be conquered and plundered. Nothing changes,
just better techniques of brainwashing. He says:)

The fact that every individual has his breaking
point has been known and, in a crude unscientific way, exploited from time
immemorial. In some cases man's dreadful inhumanity to man has been inspired by
the love of cruelty for its own horrible and fascinating sake. More often,
however, pure sadism was tempered by utilitarianism, theology or reasons of
state.

And then he goes into physical torture. Back with
more after this break.

Hi folks, Iím back, and weíre Cutting Through the
Matrix. Talking about reality and how reality is manipulated. And
itís always manipulated by propaganda from many, many sources. And people
today are trained, of course, not to listen in silence to anything.
Theyíve got to have a radio blaring or a television blaring or on the cell
phone or something blaring or occupied by a game, or whatever it happens to
be. Youíve not been taught to sit and think for yourself. Thereís a
peace, you know, that can come when you sit and think for yourself. Itís
quite amazing to try it. Personally, I think a lot of folk have never
done it in their whole lives. Children have grown up watching their
parents turn on the radio first thing in the morning, until theyíre out the
door to school, and back they come at night and thereís the TV on, now itís all
computers. And theyíre scared to think for themselves. In fact,
theyíve become accustomed to having their free time given to them, basically,
everything is laid on as entertainment or something is laid on to occupy
you. Even children donít know how to make their own games anymore.
They donít play anymore, as children.

Everything that they play with is put out by characters
who are going to make them the future soldiers for the next war that theyíll
grow up into, fighting and so on. And theyíll want to go off, because theyíll
think itís going to be fun. They really will think that. And they
will blow people away, because theyíre not real people. Theyíre just the
little things on the machines that theyíre playing with their X-boxes and so
on. Theyíre not real people, so itís easier to detach what youíre
actually doing from the reality of what youíre doing. And thatís great
for military and for those who own the military. And you donít own the
military. The military works for the big boys, who go abroad with the
president, the big corporations that follow in his wake, to attend global
meetings, where all their interests happen to lay together.

The soldier doesnít know anything about that, nor does he
care. He enjoys for the first time in his life, getting pulled into a
place of status by a uniform. Very simple thing to do. Dress him up
in a uniform and suddenly he gets status. You know, suddenly, from a
nobody, youíre a somebody, because the general population has been trained to
see you that way too. Quite something else. And like every army
before them, like the Russians going into Germany at the end of World War II,
they were shocked to find the public didnít want to be liberated by the
Communists. Just like the American troops were shocked to find that they
didnít want, the Iraqis didnít want to be liberated either by the Americans,
because they knew what the scams were really all about. They knew more
than the troops did. They said youíre after the oil. And they were
correct. And the troops were actually parroting that stuff, ďWeíre
bringing you freedom and democracy.Ē Do you have freedom and
democracy? As your banks plunder you over and over again? Do you
have any say in the direction of this world? Do you have any say at all?
Do you have any possible chance of getting up into even the higher, even the
basic lower ends of politics without being vetted by special committees and
clubs, never mind the higher realms of the CFR. Do you have any of that
at all? So why do you bother voting for the people who do? Because
all theyíre doing is guaranteeing, you put me in, and Iíll make sure the same
banking scams will continue, because theyíre the real bosses. Iíll make
sure the military boys get their way on behalf of the big corporations and so
on. The same system goes on, and Iíll make sure the taxpayers will
continue bailing us all out at the top. Whose system is it anyway?

From Hamish and myself, from Ontario, Canada, itís Good
Night, and may your god or your gods go with you.